Tag: digital media

• My Digital Move

  I’m leaving Malaysia in four months. I’ve lived here for eleven years, but now it’s time to move on. So you know how this works: sell stuff you don’t want, pack the rest in crates, and shove the remaining in suitcases. That’s how you move. However, I also realized that there is a different kind…

  sassevn

  February 16, 2017

  Life, Uncategorized

  cloud hosting, digital backups, digital media

• Texting and Driving: Redux

  I originally posted this a year ago, but it recently came up again in my classroom and thought it might be timely to post again. I asked my students how many of them have been in a moving car while someone was texting? 39/52 said they were. Wow! How incredible it is that parents value…

  sassevn

  August 16, 2015

  Life, Tech

  digital citizenship, digital media, driving drunk, phone usage and driving, texting and driving

• The Internet May Doom Us All (or at least make us all feel stupid)

  If it’s in print, it must be worth paying attention to! If it’s from a “reputable” site, it must be true! The Internet makes us all susceptible to bias or right-out lies; Therefore, it is the duty of every person who goes on the web to judiciously and skeptically approach EVERY piece of news which…

  sassevn

  July 19, 2015

  Indie Author, Life, social critique

  digital citizenship, digital media, Fake News, media lit, media literacy, pratfalls of the internet, wrong information on the internet

• Respecting the Creative Works of Others

  A group of my students was given two tasks. First, how do people use digital media without giving the creator proper credit or compensation. The ways were many: streaming video from non-paying sights, grabbing photos off the web for a project, buying pirated DVDs (a huge market right in the open here in Malaysia), downloading…

  sassevn

  September 18, 2014

  Teaching & Education

  copyright, creative works, digital citizenship, digital media, illegal downloading, respecting others creative works